In May 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a lengthy briefing document on an experimental medication for a rare autoimmune form of vasculitis that often damages the kidneys and lungs.

The vagus nerve looks like a long white string that begins in the brainstem and travels down through the neck into the chest, where it branches to organs including the heart and lungs, and down into ...

Americans tend to express discontent during midterm congressional elections. In 1974, voters punished Republicans over the Watergate scandal, and they did so again in 2006 over the Iraq War and the ...

Far too often, the advice offered to junior scientists in my orbit boils down to one instruction: “Delete your social media account.” The advice is easy to understand. On many platforms, scientists ...

Welcome to Entanglements. In this episode, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild are joined by Undark editor-in-chief Tom Zeller Jr. to talk about the show’s successes and failures, and about their ...